Introduction / Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak -- The study of civil-military relations in Israel: a new perspective / Oren Barak and Gabriel Sheffer -- Military knowledge and weak civilian control in the reality of low intensity conflict : the Israeli case / Kobi Michael -- Civil society, the military, and national security: the case of Israel's security zone in South Lebanon / Avraham Sela -- Intractable conflict and the media / Yoram Peri -- Tensions between military service and Jewish orthodoxy in Israel: implications imagined and real / Stuart A. Cohen -- From "obligatory militarism" to "contractual militarism" : competing models of citizenship / Yagil Levy, Edna Lomsky-Feder, and Noa Harel -- Shadow lands: the use of land resources for security needs in Israel / Amiram Oren -- "The battle over our homes": reconstructing/deconstructing sovereign practices around Israel's separation barrier on the West Bank / Yuval Feinstein and Uri Ben-Eliezer -- The debate over the defense budget in Israel / Zalam F. Shiffer -- Civilian control over the army in Israel and France / Samy Cohen -- The making of Israel's political-security culture / Amir Bar-Or -- The discourses of "psychology" and the "normalization" of war in contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Visual representations of IDF women soldiers and "civil-militarism" in Israel / Chava Brownfield-Stein -- Contradictory representation of the IDF in cultural texts of the 1980's / Yuval Benziman -- Military and society since 9/11: retrospect and prospect / Christopher Dandeker.